such rotten luck, laptop broke any laptop savy ppl here?
Hi guys was getting so good working along with camming and bamm! laptop just went crazy now wants me to reinstall windows its a acer aspire netbook, only laptop i have at moment thats mine, i dont have the disk and really dont know how to do recovery on ut , I have to start using my mothers laptop at moment which id very old and the camera is crap! haven the money to get a new one as i just paid off my weekly debt to the bank!! any tech savy girls help me :(
Re: such rotten luck, laptop broke any laptop savy ppl here?
If its just saying you need to install windows, instead of getting a new laptop, take it into a repair center and have them install windows on it. Or buy a copy of windows and install it yourself...
Re: such rotten luck, laptop broke any laptop savy ppl here?
Those types of netbooks don't come with disks usually so try pressing the Alt key with F10 at the same time, as the computer is booting up and that should bring up your windows reinstall menu. The windows reinstall is saved to the hard drive.
Re: such rotten luck, laptop broke any laptop savy ppl here?
hi i tried the f10 approach no luck at all keeps rerouting me to some edit boot manager thing so im gonna take the easy way out and head to a repair guy tomorrow lol thanks
Re: such rotten luck, laptop broke any laptop savy ppl here?
Laptops are usually are shipped without disks these days and are recovered from the hard drive itself.
Acer seems to have a support per issue cost
http://support.acer.com/us/en/answers.aspx
Here are some recovery instructions if money is tight
http://www.techsupportforum.com/foru...ns-162525.html
Re: such rotten luck, laptop broke any laptop savy ppl here?
No omg dont take it to a repair guy you can download windows free on the internet Via torrent sites like The Pirate Bay.
But i would try acer support fist like the other girl said they store a image of your operating system on a ghost drive in your hard disk. You just need to access it.
Re: such rotten luck, laptop broke any laptop savy ppl here?
Im so old school :D I forgot that yeah, most times even on regular laptops...like the one Im using right now has the windows install on a partition of my drive.
Just did a quick google search, and Acer suggests trying to do a recovery first to repair any problems that may be wrong with your drive and causing you issues, and that way too youll be able to keep all the data thats already on your computer.
Basically, when the splash screen comes up, hit Alt and F10 together, the recovery screen should come up, hit R for recovery and let it do its thing. If that doesnt work, then start over, but this time at the recovery screen, choose Windows Installation..that will delete everything from your computer and start a fresh install of Windows.
Re: such rotten luck, laptop broke any laptop savy ppl here?
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Originally Posted by
melissahornygirl
hi i tried the f10 approach no luck at all keeps rerouting me to some edit boot manager thing so im gonna take the easy way out and head to a repair guy tomorrow lol thanks
Did you remember to hold the Alt key down? - it's AltF10 not just f10